How to render a PDF file in Android

Question

Android does not have PDF support in its libraries. Is there any way to render PDF files in the Android applications?

Answer 1

To add a little light to this, I would have to go with the pdf.js solution from Mozilla. Here is the link to an already well written implementation of this: https://bitbucket.org/butelo/pdfviewer/.

Here are the edits that I added in my Android Activity:

private String getInternalPDFURL(String interalPDFName){
    return "file:///android_asset/pdfviewer/index.html?pdf=" + interalPDFName + ".pdf";
}

Here are the edits I made in pdffile.js:

var url = '../' + getPDFURL();

function getPDFURL(){
    var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
    var vars = query.split("=");
    var pdfPage = vars[1];
    return pdfPage;
}